BRCC to host K-12 threat assessment team training

7:49 AM,
Aug. 15, 2013

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School districts that don't have a threat assessment team can head to locations around the state, including Blue Ridge Community College, for a one-day training session on how to establish one. The state now requires each district to have a team, the first state in the U.S. to require it for K-12 districts.

The General Assembly passed the requirement earlier this year after a recommendation by a state task force convened after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting in December. U.Va. professor Dewey Cornell, a member of the task force, will conduct the training, which is sponsored ...